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.

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

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.

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

A princely mind will undo a private family.

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