"When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric."

"I am not concerned to prove the justice of my opinion, but to show its usefulness."

"And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more…"

"The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that a wise man knows he is a fool, and a fool thinks he is wise."

"When beasts could speak (the learned say They still can do so every day), It seems, they had religion then, As much as now we find in men."