There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

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

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.