Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.