Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.
To build is to be robbed.
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.