Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.