If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

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.

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

There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

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