All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

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

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

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.