Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.