The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.