The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

One may be humble out of pride.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.