Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

An English man does not travel to see English men.

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

For I begin with writing the first sentence, — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.