Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.