It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.