There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?