It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.