Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.
Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.