“Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity.”

“Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.”

“If one doesn't get what one wants in one world, one can always get it in another”

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

“Minds differ still more than faces.”

“The more a man knows, the less he talks.”

“We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence”