Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Successful villany is called virtue.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.