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

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

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

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

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

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

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