Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.

O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.

The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Law is a bottomless pit.