When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes; and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.