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

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

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

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

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

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

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