Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.