In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

I never spoke one Word to him in my Life; yet I love him so dearly, that 'tis impossible I should live without him

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.