The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.