I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.

True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.