I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.