The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.