Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

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

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

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

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.