Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Man is a tool-using animal.