Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.
Good temper is an estate for life.
No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.