Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

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