Nothing is certain in London but expense.

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.