Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

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

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.