A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.