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.

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

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

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.