Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.