Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.