To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

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

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.

The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.