If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

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.

Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures and his pains, is perhaps the first to publish injuries or misfortunes which had never been known unless related by himself, and at which those that hear them will only laugh, for no man sympathises with the sorrows of vanity.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.