Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.