For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

There is nothing costs less than civility.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.