When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.