If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.