There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped at them in their lives. They were wise in their generation; for they cried down worldly things because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, because they wanted to dispose of them.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.