Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

I see the cure is not worth the pain.

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.