Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

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

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.