When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.