The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.

Envy is littleness of soul.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.