It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.