Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.