It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

No man knows himself as an original.

Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.