What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
Beauty draws us with a single hair.
With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.