There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an...

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.