Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.