Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.

The things which hurt, instruct.