A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.