Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.