Self love is the instrument of our preservation.
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.