No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.