In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

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

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

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

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 steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.