Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.

See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.