Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.