A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

Ability without honor has no value.

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.