It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.