Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

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.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.