Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.