Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.

We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.