Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.