The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.