I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.