Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

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.