I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

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

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.