Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.