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.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

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

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.

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.