He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.