A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

Big-endians and small-endians.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.