A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.