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

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

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

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.