Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

Round numbers are always false.