“There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.”
“The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.”
“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”
“There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!”
“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”
“I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.”
“Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.”
“To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.”
“Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.”
“If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.”
“One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.”
“We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.”
“If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.”
“Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.”
“No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.”
“The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.”
“We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.”
“Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.”
“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.”
“The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.”
“Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”
“We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.”
“It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.”
“Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.”
“They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.”
“Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.”
“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”
“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.”
“Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.”
“Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.”