Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought..

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts..

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes..

The past is the best way to suppose what may come..

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear..

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it..

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way..

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility..

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world..

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers..

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfa….

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first..

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy..

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies..

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for..

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation..

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosop….

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him..

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured..

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, tha….

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have.