Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Observation is an old man's memory.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.