Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

There never were, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel.