Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.