I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Clear your mind of "can't."
Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.
The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve.
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire...
That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.