Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
Even victors are by victories undone.
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.
All habits gather by unseen degrees.