Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
A traveler’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he’s able to digest.
I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.
A college joke to cure the dumps.
I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.
A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.
Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.