A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.
Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.