Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

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

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.