The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.
A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back.
Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.