The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

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.