Men hate more steadily than they love.
Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
The business of life is to go forward.
Suspicion is most often useless pain.
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.