Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.