A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

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.