The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a ….

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

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do..

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 ….

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake..

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody..

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

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things..

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them..

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel..

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents..

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms..

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment..

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

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place..

A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake..

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and inst….

When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to b….

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

A princely mind will undo a private family..

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse..