A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .