All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

My hunger serves me instead of a clock.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.