Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

Books, the children of the brain.

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.