It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

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