He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

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

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.