The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

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 are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.