Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.
Big-endians and small-endians.
Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.