There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.
An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.