Zeal will do more than knowledge.

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

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

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 have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

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

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.