Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

I always get the better when I argue alone.