Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

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.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.