Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

I row after health like a waterman.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.