The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting.

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

A Man is to go about his own Business as if he had not a Friend in the World to help him in it.