What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

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.

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.