No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.
We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.