I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

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.

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.