Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

Nothing is certain in London but expense.

When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.