The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Every hour has its end.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.