It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by others. We have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.