Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

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

I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.