Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.