He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.