An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

He that Opposes his own Judgment against the Current of the Times, ought to be back'd with unanswerable Truths; and he that has that Truth on his Side, is a Fool, as well as a Coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the Currency or Multitude of other Mens Opinions.

Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

In the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.