Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

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

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.