Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.