So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.