Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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.
Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.