The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
No really great man ever thought himself so.
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.
A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.