If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.