It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.