The Dignity Of History.

Make Money Your God, And It Will Plague You Like The Devil.

And Here, I Believe, The Wit Is Generally Misunderstood. In Reality, It Lies In Desiring Another To Kiss Your A-- For Having Just Before Threatened To Kick His; For I Have Observed Very Accurately, That No One Ever Desires You To Kick That Which Belongs To Himself, Nor Offers To Kiss This Part In Another.

Conscience Is A Judge In Every Man's Breast, Which None Can Cheat Or Corrupt, And Perhaps The Only Incorrupt Thing About Him; Yet, Inflexible And Honest As This Judge Is (however Polluted The Bench On Which He Sits), No Man Can, In My Opinion, Enjoy Any Applause Which Is Not There Adjudged To Be His Due.

We Must Eat To Live, And Not Live To Eat.

Fashion Is The Great Governor Of This World; It Presides, Not Only In Matters Of Dress And Amusement, But In Law, Physic, Politics, Religion, And All Other Things Of The Gravest Kind; Indeed, The Wisest Of Men Would Be Puzzled To Give Any Better Reason Why Particular Forms In All These Have Been At Certain Times Universally Received, And At Others Universally Rejected, Than That They Were In Or Out Of Fashion.