"For what the world calls virtue, is but a compound of vices."

"No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel."

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen."

"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit."

"'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit. Will condescend to take a bit."