Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Society is built upon trust.
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.