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

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

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

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

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.

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

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.