What I have learnt I no longer know; what I still know has come to me by intuition.
Man can aspire to virtue; he cannot reasonably aim at finding truth.
Man reaches each stage in his life as a novice.
The majority of human beings in the world pass their lives in it so heedlessly and think so little, that they do not know that world which they have before their eyes every day. They do not, M. de B. wittily remarked, for the same reason that cockchafers have no acquaintance with natural history.
’Tis not generally known how much wit a man requires to avoid being ridiculous.