Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.