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.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.