Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.