Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.