Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

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

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.