Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

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

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.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.