Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

May you live all the days of your life.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

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

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

Books, the children of the brain.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

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.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

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.

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

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Every dog must have his day.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Observation is an old man's memory.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

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.

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

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

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