The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

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.

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

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