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.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

Just get the right syllable in the proper place.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.