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.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

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

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.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.