What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.