Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

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

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.