“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”

“No wise man ever wished to be younger. ”

“May you live every day of your life.”

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”

“Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.”

“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”

“Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.”