I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.