Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind.

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.