Pray how does your asparagus perform?

The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.

They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.