Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
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.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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.
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.
Man: the glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
An honest man is the noblest work of God.
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.