Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.