Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

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

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns