A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

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

A college joke to cure the dumps.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.