The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

I row after health like a waterman…

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy.