No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.