"If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would app…"

"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."

"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."

"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself."