Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

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.