 An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. |
| The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. |
| Necessity makes an honest man a knave. |
| The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. |
| All men would be tyrants if they could. |
| In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled. |
| Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. |
| As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. |
| Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. |
| All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. |
| I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. |
| Pride the first peer and president of hell. |
| 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil. |
| It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. |
| Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. |
| He that is rich is wise. |
