As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.