It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

All beginnings are very troublesome things.

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.