Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.

He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left the…

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labour of the bees, will often be stung for his…