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

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

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.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

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

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.