Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

Every dog has his day.