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

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

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

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.