Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.
A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.
Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.