He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.

He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Loudness is impotence.

He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it.