Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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.