The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into a kind of Creed, according to the Opinions of the most celebrated Atheists; I say, supposing such a Creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one People in the World, whether it would not require an infinitely greater Measure of Faith, than any Set of Articles which they so violently oppose.