...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.

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.