The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

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

There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.

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.