There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

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

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.

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

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

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.