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.

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

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

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

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.