Saying is one thing, doing another.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

One may be humble out of pride.

The mariner of old said to Neptune in a great tempest, "O God! thou mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayest destroy me; but whether or no, I will steer my rudder true."

How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation!

Apollo said that every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into form.

Why may not a goose say thus: "All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me; I have such an advantage by the winds and such by the waters; there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me. I am the darling of Nature! Is it not man that keeps and serves me?"

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.