Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Anger is practical awkwardness.

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.