That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.