The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
Two or three hundred people in the world, having the care of education in their hands, and money enough to pay for it, may do all that is necessary.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
