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

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.