I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.