Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms. - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Remember that Children and Fools want every thing because they want Wit to distinguish: and therefore there is no stronger Evidence of a Crazy Understanding, than the making too large a Catalogue of things necessary, when in truth there are so very few things that have a right to be placed in it.

It is not a reproach but a compliment to learning, to say, that great scholars are less fit for business; since the truth is, business is so much a lower thing than learning, that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

If Men considered how many Things there are that Riches cannot buy, they would not be so fond of them.