Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

Naked Truth needs no shift.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.