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

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

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

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.