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

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

Many a truth is told in jest.

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.