The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

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

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

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

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