Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

He that would travel much, should eat little.

My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.

In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.