Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.