“Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.”

“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”

“He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.”

“There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.”

“We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.”

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do”