Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.