It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.