Courage Is A Quality So Necessary For

The Complaint, Therefore, That All Topicks Are Preoccupied, Is Nothing More Than The Murmur Of Ignorance Or Idleness, By Which Some Discourage Others, And Some Themselves; The Mutability Of Mankind Will Always Furnish Writers With New Images, And The Luxuriance Of Fancy May Always Embellish Them With New Decorations.

Surely A Long Life Must Be Somewhat Tedious, Since We Are Forced To Call In So Many Trifling Things To Help Rid Us Of Our Time, Which Will Never Return.

To Do Nothing Is In Everyone's Power.

Melancholy, Indeed, Should Be Diverted By Every Means But Drinking.

When Two Eglishmen Meet, Their First Talk Is Of The Weather.