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

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.

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

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.

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.

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