To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.
Hope is itself a species of happiness.
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.