Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

A lie is an excuse guarded

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

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

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.