I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

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

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

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.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.