Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich -that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be in some measure performed by the greatest prince, hero, or philosopher upon earth; nay, sometimes Nature hath been so frolicsome as to exact of these dignified characters a much more exorbitant share of this office than she hath obliged those of the lowest orders to perform.