A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

All people have their blind side-their superstitions.

May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.