Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

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