“Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.”

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Every dog must have his day.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.

Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!

She’s a jesus lover who likes to dance with the devil sometimes.

Dreamy eyes pierce me like thorns, devil in disguise hearts forlorn.

The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.

Not all the monsters have fangs.

Haste is of the Devil.