Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.