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.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.