There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

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.

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.