There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.