Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.