You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.
Shame arises from the fear of man conscience from the fear of God.
Language is the dress of thought.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Words are but the signs of ideas.
I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven.
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
An old friend never can be found and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.