The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.