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

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

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.

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

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

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

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.