Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Human nature is the same in all professions.

When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.