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.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

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

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.