A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race of their lives.

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion

Children blessings seem, but torments are;/ When young, our folly, and when old our fear.

A barbarous practice, the inconsistency, folly, and injury of which no words can sufficiently describe.

[Condemning the use of mercurial medicines.]

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.