A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.