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

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

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.

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

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

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

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