Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.