Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.