Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

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

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

Vision is seeing the invisible.