The Common Excuse For Those

Persons Of Rank Do Not Talk About Such Trifles As The Common People Do; But The Common People Do Not Busy Themselves About Such Frivolous Things As Do Persons Of Rank.

In A Way, The Main Fault Of All Books Is That They Are Too Long.

Great Men Are Sometimes So Even In Small Things.

The Things We Know Best Are The Things We Haven't Been Taught.

It Is No Great Advantage To Possess A Quick Wit, If It Is Not Correct; The Perfection Is Not Speed But Uniformity.