Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.