As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.
The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.