No man hates him at whom he can laugh.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.

Self-love is a busy prompter.

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.