Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.