If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.