Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

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.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

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.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.