Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

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

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.