Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.