When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.

Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

All would live long, but none would be old.

Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.