The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.

The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.