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

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.