The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

- Roger L'Estrange

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

- Roger L'Estrange

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

- Roger L'Estrange

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

- Roger L'Estrange

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

- Roger L'Estrange

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

- Roger L'Estrange

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

- Roger L'Estrange

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

- Roger L'Estrange

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to …

- Roger L'Estrange