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

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

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

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.

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

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.