It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!