If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
My hunger serves me instead of a clock.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age...
T is as cheap sitting as standing.
Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.
It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.