The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.