Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
A man is a god in ruins.
If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Logic is like the sword
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Follow your own passion – not your parents’, not your teachers’- yours.
