Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer
That low vice, curiosity!
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.