There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.