Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

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

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

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

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.