The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

Books, the children of the brain.