Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.