When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.
Every one’s true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.
Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.
Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.
If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
And not to serve for a table-talk.
He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.