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| 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil | | Sin | |
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| All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. | | Uncategorized | |
| An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch | | Uncategorized | |
| And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. | | Uncategorized | |
| As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. | | Uncategorized | |
From this amphibious ill-born mob began
That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman. | | Uncategorized | |
| He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters | | Uncategorized | |
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| I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. | | Uncategorized | |
| In trouble to be troubled Is to have your trouble doubled | | Uncategorized | |
| It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions | | Military | |
| Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. | | Innocence; Justice | |
| Middle age is youth without its levity,/ And age without decay. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could | | Uncategorized | |
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| One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late | | Men | |
