An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

Jesters do often prove prophets.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.