When some men discharge an obligation you can hear the report for miles around

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue

No man has a wholly undiseased mind; in one way or another all men are mad

The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me.