Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.

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

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

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

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