When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.