I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
A carpenter is known by his chips.
How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.