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

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

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

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

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

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

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.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

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

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

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

Don’t set your wit against a child.

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.

The reason we’re successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

First impressions are always unreliable.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

First appearance deceives many.