That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.