Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

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.

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.