"The mind of man is far from a clear and even mirror, but is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstitions and impostures."

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

"It is a thing that ever accompanies great parts, that those that have them are not soon satisfied."

"The human understanding from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds."

"For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."