Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

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

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

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.

Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.