I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.