"Dogs have at least the advantage over men, that they discover their friends, and bark at their enemies."

"Conversation is but carving; Carve for all, yourself is starving: Give no more to every Guest, Than he's able to digest; Give him always of the Prime; And but little at a Time. Carve to all but just e…"

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."

"'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit. Will condescend to take a bit."

"I have always been a great admirer of the proverb, 'Necessity is the mother of invention'."