The latter part of a wise person’s life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.
Desponding Phyllis was endu’d With ev’ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near; Salute her, and she turn’d her Ear: If o’er against her you were plac’d She durst not look above your Waist.
Sweeping from butcher’s stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown’d puppies, stinking sprats, all drench’d in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.
Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.