The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.
She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.