An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.