If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.
Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.