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.

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

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

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

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

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