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.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.