I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

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."

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.