Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.