He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.