The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation. |
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory |
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past. |
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you |
The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times. |
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject |
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead |
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 |
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters |