The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.
I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.