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

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.

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

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

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

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