Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

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.

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.