An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.