111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.