A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.