It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

A witty saying proves nothing.