I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Books, the children of the brain.
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.
Don’t set your wit against a child.
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.