The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.