I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

Men are vile inconstant toads.

It's all been very interesting.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.