Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.