Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

May you live all the days of your life.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.

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