The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
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.
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
A princely mind will undo a private family.
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.
