Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.