Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.