Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Half talent is no talent.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.

He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.