- God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
- A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
- A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
- A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.