The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

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

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.