Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a great abuse on that gentleman's character. Perhaps he may sometimes desert those who are only his cup acquaintance; or who, at most, are but half his; but he generally stands by those who are thoroughly his servants, and helps them off in all extremities, till their bargain expires.

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.