The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.