I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

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

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.