Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

Observation is an old man's memory.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.