Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
To be of no Church is dangerous.
Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.
A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.
No man was ever great by imitation.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.
A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time but they will be remembered and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion...
A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement.
Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.