He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

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

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

A princely mind will undo a private family.

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

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

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.