Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

Come, agree, the law's costly.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.