The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.

A babe is fed with milk and praise.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.