Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.