A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.