Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.