Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired