Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.