A Little Learning misleadeth, and a great deal often stupifieth the Understanding. - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

It is not a reproach but a compliment to learning, to say, that great scholars are less fit for business; since the truth is, business is so much a lower thing than learning, that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

Nothing would more contribute to make a Man wise, than to have always an Enemy in his view.

Most Mens' Anger about Religion is as if two Men should quarrel for a Lady they neither of them care for.