If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.