Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.