Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.