It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.