Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

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.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

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

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.