Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

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

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.