When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.