A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
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.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.