If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.