The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.