The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul would'st reach! It needs the overflow of heart To gi…

It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.