Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

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.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.