Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.