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

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.