It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

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

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

Bread is the staff of life.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.