There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.