The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

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.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.