Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

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.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

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.

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.