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

A princely mind will undo a private family.

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.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

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

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

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