Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.