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

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.