A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
A fool and his words are soon parted.
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
