Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

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

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

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