Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

A college joke to cure the dumps.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

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