Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.