But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.