Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
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.
