An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.