There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Bread is the staff of life.

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

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

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