Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

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.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

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