No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

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.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.