Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

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

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