A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.