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

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

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

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.

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

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.