What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.