'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.