Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.