The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.
To please the many is to displease the wise.
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.