For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

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

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure; the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites; and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.