An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

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.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.