The conscience is more wise than science.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Many very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in them offensive or disgusting. - But a large brown wart on the upper lip, especially when it is bristly, will be found in no person who is not defective in something essential, or at least remarkable for some conspicuous failing.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.