You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.