No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
