The rotten apple spoils his companion.

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

Honesty is the best policy.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.