My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.
Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.
Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.