Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

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

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.