The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?