There is none deceived but he that trusts.

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.

What one relishes, nourishes.