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

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.