Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

Love can be founded upon Nature only.

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.