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

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

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.

There is no little enemy

What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.