Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.