Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

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.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.