The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

'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.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.