Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.