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.

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

A princely mind will undo a private family.

The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret.

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

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