To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.