Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.