A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

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.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.