And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.