Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.
Roger L'EstrangeRiches 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.
Roger L'EstrangeOf 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.
Roger L'EstrangePretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.
Roger L'Estrange