There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.