The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

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

Come, agree, the law's costly.

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

Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

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