Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.