What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
Luck never made a man wise.
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.