Children and fools want everything, because they want wit to distinguish; there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things unneccesary.

A man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock'd down as a common Enemy.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

We know more than we need to know.

Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that 's never read,- To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a t…