It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

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.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

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

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.