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.

May you live all the days of your life.

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.