Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.