Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
Nothing is certain in London but expense.
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.