No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.