Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.