One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.