Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

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

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