Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.
Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.
If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
And not to serve for a table-talk.
He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God .
The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
No noble thing can be done without risks.