Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.