I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

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

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.