I never knew any man cured of inattention.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Bread is the staff of life.

In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.