 We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. |
| A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. |
| Observation is an old man's memory. |
| Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. |
| Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. |
| Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. |
| Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. |
| No wise man ever wished to be younger. |
| Every dog must have his day. |
| The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. |
| It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. |
| We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. |
| My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool. |
| The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style. |
| Books, the children of the brain. |
| Don't set your wit against a child. |
| Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. |
| One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. |
| A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. |
| Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. |
