Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Satire is the disease of art.
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.