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

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.

In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

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