'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.