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.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.