And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them.

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.