A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

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

What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

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.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.