Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

Observation is an old man's memory.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.