Logic is like the sword
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.
Remember where you came from.
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Always play like an underdog.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Better a broken promise than none at all.
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
