The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.