“The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.” — George Savile

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.

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

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.