Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.