Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

Observation is an old man's memory.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.