Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

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