Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

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

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

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.

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

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.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.