To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

Books, the children of the brain.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.