Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.