By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.