The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
Principle is a passion for truth.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
Malice often takes the garb of truth.
Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
The worst old age is that of the mind.
Time,--the most independent of all things.
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