To smell, though well, is to stink.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

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.

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.