'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.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

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

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

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

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.