Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

True self-love and social are the same.