Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

The joy of life is variety.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.