"The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a torrent of words; for whoever is master of an art, and hath a proper fund of materials, and a suitable …"

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

"If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would app…"

"Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old."

"But the greatest part of the world are such as would be glad to have their consciences eased, and to live in a state of nature."