I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

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

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

My hunger serves me instead of a clock.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.