I never knew any man cured of inattention.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Books, the children of the brain.
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
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.