An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.