Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

Praise is the daughter of present power.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

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

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.