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

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

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.

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

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

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.

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.