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

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

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

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

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.

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

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