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.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

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

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

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