Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.