Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

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.

All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

Many a truth is told in jest.