The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.