You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

In the motive lies the good or ill.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.

To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.