Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

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

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.