They lard their lean books with the fat of others' work.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.

Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.

Conscience is a great ledger book in which all our offences are written and registered, and which time reveals to the sense and feeling of the offender.

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

The miller sees not all the water that flows by his mill.