Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed.
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again.
Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend.
I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er.
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Get place and wealth if possible with grace If not by any means get wealth and place.
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was nor is nor e'er shall be.
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return.
There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's bless'd.
The world forgetting by the world forgot.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.