Truth never perishes.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.