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

It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.

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

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.