Truth is a naked and open daylight

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.