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.

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

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.