When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.