Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

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.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.