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

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

Come, agree, the law's costly.