When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

On second thought, it's a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much.

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

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.