Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.