It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.