Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

Come, agree, the law's costly.

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.