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

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.