"Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken."

"I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without salt."

"For we are told by a grave author, an eminent French physician, that health is the most valuable of all possessions; and that it is to be acquired by eating, and by drinking, and by sleeping, and by e…"

"The want of proper food in this kingdom is a topic so trite, that few people care to talk of it, for fear of being thought to have nothing new to say."

"Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect."