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

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.