Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

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

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

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.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

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

May you live all the days of your life.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.