Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.
You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.