No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes