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.
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
