Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.

Praise little, dispraise less.

Hunger is the best pickle.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting