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

I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

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

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.