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He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Books, the children of the brain.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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