Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

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

Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

Is not absence death to those who love?