Silence is one great art of conversation.
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!
The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.