Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

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

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?