Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.