Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.