Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
An honest man is the noblest work of God.
How happy is the blameless vestal`s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray`r accepted, and each wish resign`d;
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Man: the glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.