Give Dayrolles a chair.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.