Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.