He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
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.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
