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.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.