Jesters do often prove prophets.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this in particular, that by the reproaches which it casts upon us, we see the worst side of ourselves.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.