“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
