An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.