Abuse is an indirect species of homage.
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.