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

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.