God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.