Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

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

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.