Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.