There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

They are forced plants, raised in a hot-bed; and they are poor plants; they are but cucumbers after all.

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

This man I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.