He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.