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

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

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.

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

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.