Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Little rogues easily become great ones.

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes; and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.