Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.