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

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.