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

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.