Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.