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

It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

Come, agree, the law's costly.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.