Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.