Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.