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

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.