All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

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.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

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

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