Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.
Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.
The contact of two epidermises.