Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

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.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.