By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.