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.

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

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

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

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

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