The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.