The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.

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

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.