It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

Round numbers are always false.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.