Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.