There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

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.