[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.