So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

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.