The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.