I never knew any man cured of inattention.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.