The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

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

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters

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