If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

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.

Character is long-standing habit.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

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

When the candles are out all women are fair.