He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

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

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

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.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.