To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.