The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

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

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

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.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.