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.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.

We are never so generous as when giving advice.

Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.

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.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.