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.

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

Don't set your wit against a child.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.