Books, the children of the brain.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.