The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

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

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.