We live and learn, but not the wiser grow

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow.

Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those whom most he likes.

Wine whets the wit, improves its native force…

I'd have a clear and competent estate, That I might live genteelly, but not great.

There is no question that education has been more generally diffused than it was in the middle ages, but it is doubtful if the number of thinkers has been increased, or real mental culture extended. Education loses in thoroughness and …

... the only way to become a connoisseur of honey is to keep s, for thus only may one learn to discriminate between honey made from and that gathered from ; or to distinguish, at first taste, the product of in bloom from that drawn from …