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

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

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

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

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

A princely mind will undo a private family.