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.

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

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

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