All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.