Birth: September 12, 1729 Death: August 14, 1785
The place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the, old sages and philosophers; A….
To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school..
"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their cr….
Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over, Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober..
Calamity is man's true touchstone..
Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety..
Deeds, not words shall speak to me..
The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them..
Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet..
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution..