Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.