Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.