Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
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.