Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.