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

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a ve…

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

Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly.

I put my pants on just like the rest of you - one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.

He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.