My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.