When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.