A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.
A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.
Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.
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.