There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

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

Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

What bosom beast not in his country's cause?