My hunger serves me instead of a clock.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

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.

Observation is an old man's memory.

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns