“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.”

“If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.”

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

“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.”

“No wise man ever wished to be younger. ”