Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.
Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.
False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.
Children blessings seem, but torments are.