Wisdom at times is found in folly.
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.
Mistakes are their own instructors
Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.