Regimen is superior to medicine, especially as, from time immemorial, out of every hundred physicians, ninety-eight are charlatans
In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.