Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.