Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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…

The most positive men are the most credulous:

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