Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

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.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.