Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.