When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.