Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
If you like not my writing, go read something else.
Be not solitary, be not idle.
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Build castles in the air.
Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.
Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher’s stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.
Employment, which Galen calls ‘Nature’s Physician,’ is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.
Out of too much learning become mad.
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.
He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.
A quiet mind cureth all.
It is most true, stylus virum arguit, – our style betrays us.