Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

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

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

The very pink of perfection.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.