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

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.