There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.