Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Good Christians should never avenge injuries.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.