It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.