Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.